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GOVERNMENT 

by the 
BREWERS? 



By 
ADOLPH KEITEL 



For thirty years intimately 

associated with the 

brewing industry 



(Copyright, 1918, by ADOLPH KEITEL) 



Published by 
APPERSLY & CO. 

Chicago 



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Kenfleld-Leach Printing Co. 



MAR -4 1918 
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CONTENTS. 

Chapter Page 
Preface 9 

Ballot Box (Illustration.) 11 

I. My thirty years' intimate association 

with the brewers 13 

II. Prohibition banishes crime 15 

III. What is beer? 19 

IV. Non-alcoholic beer is a mysterious 

compound of drugs 23 

V. Beer is a habit forming drug 25 

VI. Why beer, is not a fit drink for the 

home : 29 

VII. Beer is not a temperance drink 33 

VIII. The decreased, alcoholic content of 

beer will increase drunkenness 37 

IX. Brewers' grains are considered dan- 

gerous for cows' milk 41 

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CONTENTS— (Continued) 
Chapter Page 

X. Brewers assault distillers to hide 

their own crimes 45 

XL Abolition of crime and vice would 

decrease the sale of beer 51 

XII. Crime is planned in saloons 53 

XIII. The beer traffic does not recognize 

the sanctity of the home 55 

XIV. A vice complaint 57 

An every-day vice scene (Illus- 
tration) 59 

XV. Laws are openly violated 61 

XVI. Another vice backed by brewers 65 

Cabarets and tango dance resorts 66 

How a New York brewer advertises 
his cabaret resort 70 

XVII. Millions expended in corrupting 

elections 71 

United States Brewers' Association 
exposed 73 

XVIII. How Chicago Brewers have tried to 

prevent a "dry" vote 77 

XIX. Brewers fear woman suffrage 81 

XX. People resent government by the 

brewers 83 

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PREFACE. 

When it was found impossible to sup- 
press my writings by attempts to bribe me, 
men were hired to poison me. After the 
failure of this plot to dispose of me, I was 
subjected to almost unbelievable insults, 
persecution, humiliation and injustice in 
the courts. 

A friendly federal judge was besought to 
stop me by an injunction. The United 
States Circuit Court of Appeals set it 
aside. 

Four futile attempts were made to in- 
fluence the Post Office authorities to deny 
me the use of the mails. 

I was twice presented with the alterna- 
tive of either agreeing to stop the publica- 
tion of the truth or being throwm into jail 
on "framed" libel charges. I chose the 



jail rather than renounce the right of the 
freedom of the press guaranteed me by 
the constitution of my country. 

When even the jail could not silence me, 
a diabolical attempt was made to bury me 
alive in an institution for the insane, but 
when it was found impossible to discover 
the slightest trace of insanity, or drive me 
insane during a sojourn of a month among 
maniacs, I was released. 

I verily believe that the honesty of the 
alienists in charge of the institution alone 
saved me from a living death. 

The Author. 



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A Menace to Good Government 



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"The very nature of the business of the brew- 
er makes it imperative that they retain a strong 
hold on the ballot box. By those methods alone 
have they been able to exist in the past. By 
those methods alone can they hope to save them- 
selves" 



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Chapter I. 

MY THIRTY YEARS' 

INTIMATE ASSOCIATION 

WITH THE BREWERS 



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For about thirty years I have been 
closely allied with the brewing industry 
and was daily brought in contact with the 
brewers. 

I have been interested in a number of 
breweries as a stockholder. I have been 
intimately associated with many brewers 
throughout the country. I am therefore 
thoroughly familiar with the inner history 
of the beer business and the political cor- 
ruption, crime, vice and degeneracy closely 
interwoven therewith. 



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Chaptbb II. 
PROHIBITION BANISHES CRIME 



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Naturally, I am not a prohibitionist. 
Nevertheless, I dispute the contention of 
the brewers that they did not oppose but, 
instead, actually approved the enactment 
of the recent "bone-dry" prohibition legis- 
lation forbidding transportation of alco- 
holic beverages into states which prohibit 
the sale and manufacture of intoxicants, on 
the ground that its drastic measure would 
have a "reactionary effect" and thus re- 
sult in the return of a number of the pres- 
ent "dry" states into the 4, wet" column. 
Vaporings of this sort sound very much 
like the old sour grape story and have 
their origin in the fertile brain of the pub- 
licity manager of the beer trust. 

Absence of drunkenness, law and order, 
and the reduction of crime to a minimum, 
have invariably followed the "dry" wave. 

Prohibition has emptied the jails, and 

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the people are gratified with the new order 
of things. Everybody is happy except the 
liquor interests. 

A town in Georgia, having no further 
use for its jail, not having had an occupant 
for a long time as the result of the bone- 
dry law, has rented it out for another pur- 
pose. 

The most remarkable proof comes from 
the national capital. Washington became 
saloonless on November 1, 1917. During 
the month of November — the first dry 
month — official figures made public by the 
commissioners, comparing arrests for 
drunkenness during November, 1917, and 
the same month a year ago, show that dur- 
ing November, 1917, 199 arrests for drunk- 
enness were made, as against 838 for No- 
vember, 1916, a reduction of 639, or 76 per 
cent. The greatest number of arrests for 
any one week in November, 1917, were 61, 
while the greatest number for the same 
period a year ago were 218. 

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In Decatur, 111., which went "dry" four 
years ago, the population has increased 
from 25,000 to 45,000. It is claimed that 
the criminal cases have lessened 90 per 
cent, that the building of factories and 
houses has increased 30 per cent, that 2,700 
savings depositors in banks were added 
and that there were 37 per cent less cases 
of public charity yearly. 

Nor will the loss of revenue permanently 
affect conditions. The enormous wealth 
of the country will soon adjust that phase 
of the situation. 

Authorities assert there is no license city 
that keeps within its budget, whereas there 
is no dry city that is not financially im- 
proved by the ousting of the brewers. 



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Chapteb III. 
WHAT IS BEER? 



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In the well known European beer drink- 
ing countries nothing but hops and malt 
are permitted in brewing. 

Here beer is a concoction of corn, rice, 
hops, malt, glucose, preservatives and 
other drugs — and, in most cases, it has 
nothing in common with real beer other 
than its artificial foam and color. 

A leader of public opinion made the 
statement in the United States Senate that 
"Beer that is brewed in this country is 
slop. They say it is 4 good for the health.' 
I never saw a man who drank it who was 
not a candidate for Bright 's disease or 
paralysis. ' f 

Mr. J. Frank Hanly, editor of the Na- 
tional Enquirer (Indianapolis), and for- 
mer Governor of Indiana says: "Nor will 
the people be deceived by the fallacious 

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contention that beer is a safe and harm- 
less drink. Every laboratory in America 
refutes it. Every sociologist knows better. 
Every scientist of reputation condemns it. 
The management of every great industrial 
interest, compelled by economic necessity, 
seeks its complete overthrow.' 5 



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"The average beer drinker consumes more al- 
cohol than the average whiskey drinker" 



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Chapter IV. 

NON-ALCOHOLIC BEER 

IS A MYSTERIOUS COMPOUND 

OF DRUGS 



Numerous processes are now in use for * 
making non-alcoholic beer and the ingred- 
ients used are usually cloaked in deep mys- 
tery. 

In a recently patented process for the 
production of non-alcoholic beer it is ad- 
mitted that salt, gum arabic, quassia, a 
pepsin compound and meta-bisulphite of 
potassium, or another suitable drug, are 
some of the materials used in brewing the 
non-alcoholic product. 



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Chapter V. 
BEER IS A HABIT FORMING DRUG 



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Eminent physicians ridicule the claim 
of the brewers that beer, even assuming 
that it were pure and unadulterated — and 
entirely free from poisonous drugs and 
chemicals — is a beverage of high food 
value and ranks with milk as a blood pro- 
ducer. 

A bulletin issued by the Department of 
Health of the City of New York in relation 
to the question of alcohol as food states 
that ten cents worth of beer provides 240 
calories of food energy, while ten cents 
worth of oatmeal will provide 3,720 cal- 
ories. 

There is no question that the indulgence 
in beer is merely an acquired habit. To 
those who have not cultivated it, its taste 
is generally repugnant. 

Total abstinence for a while invariably 
cures the habit. I have been told by a 

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number of former strong adherents to the 
cause of the brewers, residing in territory 
now "dry", that even they are wondering 
why they ever saturated their systems with 
beer. Physicians condemn its use and 
claim that the widespread idea that alcohol 
is a stimulant is wrong. Beer is fast be- 
coming an outcast. 

Fresh fruit juices, notably grape juice 
and apple cider, and other satisfying bev- 
erages, well flavored, with a considerable 
food value, are daily growing more popu- 
lar and will take the place of beer. 



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"To rid the saloon of crime and vice zvould de- 
crease the sale of beer* 



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(Jhapteb VI. 

WHY BEER IS NOT A FIT DRINK 
FOR THE HOME 



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The alcoholic content of beer has been 
about four per cent. The alcoholic content 
of the quality of whiskey generally sold 
over the bar is about forty per cent — and 
frequently much less. It can therefore be 
readily seen that the quantity of alcohol 
contained in a large glass of beer, even 
a the recent slightly reduced alcoholic 
content, is equivalent to about that con- 
tained in an ordinary drink of whiskey, 
which is sufficient to intoxicate any person 
not accustomed to its use. 

It is nothing unusual, even in the case of 
confirmed drinkers, to feel at times the in- 
toxicating effect of a single glass of beer, 
especially when taken upon an empty stom- 
ach or when the system may not just be 
in proper condition. 

Brewers are recommending beer to ex- 
pectant and nursing mothers and as a fit 

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drink for the home. But, on the other 
hand, they prefer to employ men who have 
not acquired the beer drinking habit. 

The most valuable men advocating the 
1 ' wet ' ' cause fight shy of beer. They know 
what it is made of. Many saloonkeepers 
never touch it, nor will they employ bar- 
tenders unless they are total abstainers. 



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"If the saloons and other public drinking 
places were ousted, but the breweries permitted 
to operate, drunkenness, crime and vice would 
invade the home" 



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Chapter VII. 

BEER IS NOT A TEMPERANCE 
DRINK 



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It can not be denied that people drink 
beer for its alcoholic effect — and that most 
of the intoxication is caused by beer. 

Brewers claim that beer is a "true tem- 
perance drink, " but they are careful to 
add — if taken in moderate quantities. 

If beer were ever consumed in moderate 
quantities it would result in a fifty per 
cent reduction of the beer output of the 
country. It would force most of the brew- 
ers out of business — and I doubt if any 
saloon could earn enough money to pay 
the rent of the place. For that reason 
brewers can not afford to encourage the 
enactment of laws abolishing " treating, " 
despite their public statements that they 
are in favor of its suppression. 

In discussing the question with an ac- 
quaintance whom I know to be a very mod- 
erate drinker of beer only, he advanced the 

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much heard argument that a glass of beer 
will harm no one. He said that he occas- 
ionally dropped into a saloon to take a 
glass of beer. When I asked him if, when 
he had gone into a saloon he had ever run 
across some friends and, to be a good fel- 
low, he had been obliged to take a number 
of glasses, he replied "yes" — and that 
they had made him drunk. 



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"Brewers can not afford to abolish 'treating 9 



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Chapter VIII. 

THE DECREASED ALCOHOLIC 

CONTENT OF BEER WILL 

INCREASE DRUNKENNESS 



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The decree of President Wilson that 
beer brewed henceforth in the United 
States during the pendency of the war 
shall not contain more than 2.75 per cent 
alcohol by weight which is equivalent to 
3.4 per cent by volume,* and that the 
amount of grain used in its manufacture 
shall be reduced to approximately seventy 
per cent of the volume used heretofore, 
will not decrease intoxication, but it has 
9ed intense jubilation among the brew- 
ers. They pronounce it a great victory 
over the "dry" forces, and they have lost 
no time in again broadly proclaiming the 
virtu* :r product and its "food" 

value. 

The slightly reduced alcoholic content of 
beer will still be ample to produce a high 



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state of intoxication if, as is usually the 
case, it is consumed immoderately. In 
substantiation of my contention I need but 
cite the irrefutable fact that a barrel of 
beer holding 31 gallons would still contain 
a whole gallon of alcohol. 

Where the great danger lies is that the 
widely heralded reduction of the alcoholic 
content and the claim of the brewers that 
beer is now to be classed as a true temper- 
ance drink will tend to greatly deceive the 
public and thus largely increase its con- 
sumption, in most cases to cause "the 
same intoxicating effect as before. ' ' 

Besides, it has already become a common 
practice among many misguided drinkers 
to produce the desired "kick" by pouring 
whiskey, and even plain alcohol into the 
beer. 

In my opinion, therefore, the reduced 
alcoholic content will make the consump- 
tion of beer still more harmful than before, 
because, instead of diminishing drunken- 

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ness, it will have the opposite effect — and 
the brewers will be the big gainers because 
the new order of things will not only 
largely increase their output, but it will 
also reduce the cost of production without 
cutting the selling price. And, by reason 
of their increased output, they will use the 
same amount of grain as before. 

Even with the reduced alcoholic content 
the beer drinker will consume more alcohol 
than the whiskey drinker. 



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Chapter TX. 

BREWERS' GRAINS ARE 

CONSIDERED DANGEROUS 

FOR COWS' MILK 



As an argument against the extermina- 
tion of the breweries the claim is made that 
a part of the grain used in brewing is con- 
verted into a cattle feed which is a great 
"milk producer." 

Brewers' grains are the residue of bar- 
ley malt and corn grits. They consist 
principally of barley hulls. 

Corn stalks are also fed to cattle, but 
they have very little food value without a 
considerable addition of whole grain. 
Brewers' grains, as a milk producer, are 
a very poor substitute for the grain from 
which beer is brewed. 

Authorities claim that brewers' grains 
produce functional disturbances and dis- 
ease in the cow — and milk from such cows 
is not safe for infants. 

Brewers' grains are not allowed to be 

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used for the cows that yield milk and but- 
ter for Copenhagen, the capital of the 
country that leads the world in dairy farm- 
ing. 



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"The closing of the breweries can alone re- 
move the objectionable conditions inseparable 
from the beer traffic" 



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Chapter X. 

BREWERS ASSAULT DISTILLERS 
TO HIDE THEIR OWN CRIMES 



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A nation-wide campaign has been set in 
motion by the brewers to beguile the pub- 
lic by assaulting the distillers. 

Distillers rarely sell direct to saloons 
as the brewers do. 

Distillers do not own or back saloons. 

Distillers are therefore not responsible 
for the lawless conditions of which the 
public complains — nor were they ever ac- 
cused of stuffing the ballot box. 

Whiskey leaves the distillery in an un- 
adulterated condition, while beer is 
drugged at the brewery. 

The average beer drinker consumes 
more alcohol than the average whiskey 
drinker. 

The National Advocate (New York) 
maintains that "beer is a greater peril to 

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manhood, home and society than whiskey 
ever has been or can be." 

Are the attacks upon the distillers 
merely a ruse to conceal the fact that of- 
ficers, directors and thousands of stock- 
holders of the largest brewing companies 
in all parts of the country are either whole- 
sale or retail whiskey dealers, or saloon 
keepers, or both? 

If the brewers are sincere in their prom- 
ise to divorce beer from whiskey, why have 
thej 7 not closed their own whiskey stores? 

Why have they not placed a ban upon 
the sale of whiskey in all the saloons which 
they own and operate themselves? 

Why have they not forbidden the sale of 
whiskey in all saloons? What is there to 
prevent it? 

Is it not a fact that, with few exceptions, 
the so-called owners of saloons, not oper- 
ated by brewers themselves, are merely 
slaves of the brewers, the latter owning 

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either the property or the lease, the license 
and a chattel mortgage upon the fixtures 
in the place! 

The truth is that a saloon keeper can not 
exist if his business should be restricted 
to the sale of beer — and the closing of a 
saloon means a loss to the brewer. 

I quote here again from an editorial 
written by Mr. J. Frank Hanly, former 
Governor of Indiana, which appeared in 
the National Enquirer (Indianapolis), of 
which he is the editor, as follows : 

"When the writer of this editorial was 
a candidate for the nomination for Gov- 
ernor of the State of Indiana it was not 
the distilling interests of the State, but the 
brewers, that sought to wring from him a 
promise that in consideration for his nomi- 
nation he should, if elected, permit no tem- 
perance legislation during his term. It 
was the brewing interests of Indiana, not 
the distillers, that sought on the eve of 
election, after his nomination in spite of 

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their opposition, to extort a like promise 
as the price of his election. 

"It was the president of the Indiana 
Brewers' Association, and not a represen- 
tative of the distillery interests of the 
State, that walked into the Governor's of- 
fice in Indianapolis, and with the arrogance 
of a Hun announced that he had come to 
say to the Governor that a township and 
ward remonstrance law which the governor 
had recommended to the General Assembly 
for enactment could not be passed by the 
legislature 

"In all the history of the political and 
civil life of the American people there has 
been no combination or organization of 
power so brutal, so domineering, so cor- 
rupt, or so dead to every sense of civic in- 
terest or concern as the brewers of Am- 
erica. They have been and are the chief 
criminals, and no camouflage to which they 
may resort will save them. The people 
will see beneath the false pretense the 

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bare, naked facts. The legislatures of the 
States will be organized into firing squads, 
and the beer trade will be compelled to 
meet its fate." 



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Chapter XI. 

ABOLITION OF CRIME AND VICE 

WOULD DECREASE THE 

SALE OF BEER 



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Because brewers control the saloons, it 
is also within their power to suppress 
"treating," stop the operation of disor- 
derly hotels and private drinking rooms in 
conjunction with saloons, stop bookmak- 
ing and other forms of gambling, in short, 
remove any and all of the undesirable fea- 
tures connected with the saloon which are 
objected to by the public — but any serious 
disturbance with existing conditions would 
decrease the sale of beer. 



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Chaptek XII. 
CRIME IS PLANNED IN SALOONS 



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The brewers know that the saloons are 
the meeting places of lawbreakers and dis- 
reputables, that they enter the side doors 
leading to private rooms where burglaries, 
holdups and other crimes are planned and 
the booty is divided — yet, brewers will 
make no real effort to improve these con- 
ditions. 

Is it surprising that the public is clam- 
oring for the complete elimination of the 
breweries f 



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Chapter XIII. 

THE BEEE TRAFFIC DOES NOT 

RECOGNIZE THE SANCTITY 

OF THE HOME 



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On the other hand, if the saloons and 
other public drinking places were ousted 
but the breweries permitted to operate, 
drunkenness, crime and vice would invade 
the home. 

If the people are determined to remove 
the objectionable elements inseparable 
from the beer traffic, they must close the 
breweries. 



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Chapter XIV. 
A VICE COMPLAINT 



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The Juvenile Protective Association of 
Chicago filed the following complaint with 
the Chief of Police : 

"Schoenhofen's Hall 

"One of the waiters serving drinks was 
no older than 14 years. At midnight this 
boy was sitting at one of the tables half 
asleep trying to support a drunken man. 
Fifty minors were illegally present. Ten 
minors drank intoxicants. Three minors 
were intoxicated. Twenty soldiers were 
drinking intoxicants. About fifteen sol- 
diers were intoxicated. One of the soldiers 
dancing was so drunk that the girl could 
hardly hold him up. There were four in- 
stances of kissing, five of embracing, three 
of improper handling, and one fight." 

The Peter Schoenhofen Brewing Com- 
pany operates the largest brewery in Chi- 
cago. 

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Chapter XV. 
LAWS AEE OPENLY VIOLATED 



I want to say here, however, that not all 
the brewers are as black as they are 
painted. There are some among them who 
are clean and honest men who bitterly re- 
sent the lawless methods of their col- 
leagues. 

Upon the request of the respectable ele- 
ment I have frequently warned the brew- 
ers of the country that nothing could save 
their industry unless they made up their 
minds to become law abiding citizens and 
stop fooling the people. 

I have warned them on many occasions 
that they had no right to enlist the sym- 
pathy of the people as long as they per- 
sisted in defying the laws enacted by the 
people, but my warnings fell upon deaf 
ears. 



What can cause greater hostility toward 

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the brewers than the fact that midnight 
closing and Sunday laws are openly vio- 
lated with their knowledge and connivance 
and that political influence and the liberal 
use of money will gain them immunity 
from prosecution? 

Has it not frequently been said that the 
" dough bags" of the brewers control the 
courts and influence their decisions? 



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''Absence of drunkenness, law and order, and 
the reduction of crime to a minimum, have in- 
variably followed the c dry wave" 



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Chapteb XVI. 

ANOTHEE VICE BACKED BY 
BREWERS 



CABARETS 
AND TANGO DANCE RESORTS 



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How little my advice was heeded was 
clearly shown by the appearance of a com- 
paratively new vice — openly aided and 
abetted by brewers — which in a few years 
has spread its poisonous tentacles to all 
parts of the country. I refer to 

Cabarets axd Tax go Dance Eesoets 

What more can inflame the mind of the 
public against the brewers than these vul- 
gar and liquor flowing twentieth century 
dives, especially when the fact is consid- 
ered that many of these gilded hells are 
owned and operated by brewers them- 
selves? 

In many European cities similar resorts 
are classed among houses of ill repute and 
the same police regulations are applied to 
them. Here, they are brazenly advertised 
as "afternoon teas' 3 to lure the unwary. 

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In my travels I have visited many of the 
most prominently advertised places of this 
kind in different parts of the country to 
study the habitues. 

It can not be denied that most of these 
dives are the rendez-vous of the demi- 
monde, breeding places of vice, crime and 
degeneracy, and an ally of the white slave 
traffic. 

They are keeping the divorce mills busy. 
Their glitter has led astray, caused the dis- 
appearance of and has driven to suicide 
innumerable young women, particularly 
from among those who have come from 
rural districts to seek employment in large 
cities. They have made criminals of many 
young men because their salaries would 
not permit them to lead the fast life of 
their newly made friends. 

The principal source of profit to the 
keepers of these dives is, of course, the 
sale of alcoholic drinks- — in most cases 

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grossly adulterated despite the unreason- 
able prices exacted for same. 

Female performers are frequently ex- 
pected to drink with the patrons. Usually 
these women are paid a commission on the 
drinks they can persuade their dupes to 
purchase. 

Scenes of indecency are openly indulged 
in by both sexes as the result of the exces- 
sive consumption of alcoholic drinks. 

A recent development of the cabaret is 
the "hostess." Her duty is to "intro- 
duce" men and girls. In many instances 
hotels of questionable character are oper- 
ated as an adjunct to these places. 

The managers of a number of large 
hotels which have built up a reputation for 
respectability and exclusiveness have long 
ago seen the handwriting on the wall and 
therefore wisely placed a ban upon this 
evil. Ladies refuse to stop at hotels that 
attract an undesirable element by the op- 

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eration of cabarets and present-day 
dances. 

The fact that many of these places which 
are owned and operated by brewers them- 
selves continue in full blast again discred- 
its the statements of their press agents 
that "the cabaret must go." 

Will the brewers continue their policy of 
defying the people until nation-wide prohi- 
bition will put a stop to these drunken 
orgies? 



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Chapter XVII. 

MILLIONS EXPENDED IN 
CORRUPTING ELECTIONS 



UNITED STATES 

BREWERS' ASSOCIATION 

EXPOSED 



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I have also many times urged the brew- 
ers to break away from their national or- 
ganization, the United States Brewers' 
Association — also known as the Brewers' 
Trust — because I felt convinced that they 
would sooner or later lay themselves open 
to exposure and criminal prosecution, and 
that it would further increase the hostility 
toward their industry if they should per- 
sist in their attempts to defeat the prohi- 
bition movement by the expenditure of 
money in corrupting elections, legislation 
and public officials. 

Political contributions amounting to 
many millions of dollars, based upon the 
annual output of brewers throughout the 
country, are turned into their association. 

Other enormous sums are collected from 
those who sell to brewers. They are ex- 
pected to join a "league of manufacturers 

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and dealers' ' organized to fight prohibi- 
tion. From invoices rendered to brewers 
for goods purchased a certain amount is 
retained. 

Officials of the United States Brewers' 
Association declare that checkbooks, bank 
passbooks, checks, stubs and correspon- 
dence are destroyed monthly, and that the 
only record left is the money the associa- 
tion has in bank. 

That my warnings were justified was 
amply proven when, not long ago, the large 
brewing companies in the state of Texas 
were indicted charging them with the dis- 
tribution of many millions of dollars to 
promote anti-prohibition legislation and 
the payment of the poll taxes of thousands 
of persons so that they could vote against 
prohibition. All of these breweries except 
one pleaded guilty to the charges against 
them and paid penalties aggregating $276,- 
000, also expenses incurred by the Attor- 
ney General's office, totaling about $10,000, 

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and the court costs, and they accepted an 

injunction restraining them from violating 
the state anti-trust laws and contributing 
to political campaigns in the future. 

One hundred large brewing companies 
in the State of Pennsylvania, and officers 
of the United States Brewers' Association, 
were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury, 
charging conspiracy in the unlawful ex- 
penditure of money to influence elections 
at which votes for federal officials were 

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The office of the United States Brewe 
Association in the City of Xew York was 
raided and its files wei fed The 

ry <"' v the ms Nation wa 8 tted 

It was alleged that these brewers raised 
and spent a fond exceeding $1,000,00' • 
influence the election of a United States 
senator and thirty-six members of the 
lower House of Congress and to per 

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to selfish and sordid purposes the govern- 
ment of the nation. 

The United States Attorney charged in 
court that these brewers had boasted in 
their circulars of their ability to poison 
the ranks of organized labor through labor 
unions, to kill at one session of Congress 
two hundred bills inimical to the liquor in- 
terests, and to capture entire states at 
elections. 

Fines aggregating $50,000 were imposed 
upon thirty-three of these brewing com- 
panies. The United States Brewers' As- 
sociation was fined $10,000 — the maximum 
amount possible under the Federal law. 

Federal authorities have hinted at a 
nation-wide traffic in election corruption. 
Intimations have come from the same 
source that similar indictments may be 
handed down against brewers in all parts 
of the country. 

But even the scandalous exposures in 

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Texas and Pennsylvania will not stop their 
interference with elections. 

The truth is that the very nature of the 
business of the brewers makes it impera- 
tive that they retain a strong hold on the 
ballot box. By those methods alone have 
they been able to exist in the past. By 
those methods alone can they hope to save 
themselves. 

In New York, New Jersey and Pennsyl- 
vania, the mere suggestion to keepers of 
saloons, hotels and other places where 
liquor is sold that the "dry" wave may 
soon put them out of business usually 
brings forth the reply: "Our state will 
never go 'dry.' The brewers have too 
much money. They can buy all the votes 
required, as well as public officials, to Mil 
any legislation hostile to them." 



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Ghaptbb xvm. 

HOW CHICAGO BREWERS HAVE 

TRIED TO PREVENT A "DRY" 

VOTE 



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In Chicago, heretofore considered by the 
brewers one of their greatest strongholds, 
in order to enable the people to vote 
whether the city shall remain "wet" or 
become "dry," the law requires the filing 
of a petition with a certain number of sig- 
natures, but the brewers opposed even the 
right of the people to vote upon this im- 
portant question and in glaring advertise- 
ments boldly advised them to withhold 
their signatures. 

Attempts were also made to intimidate 
the circulators of the petitions by threaten- 
ing them with prosecution for perjury un- 
less they personally knew that all the sign- 
ers were registered voters. 

In spite of these methods, 148,802 signa- 
tures were obtained, 42,302 more than the 
106,500 names required under the law. 



Attempts made by politicians to defer 
the election for a year on the plea of 
" economy " were also unsuccessful. In 
many quarters same was branded as an- 
other ruse on the part of the brewers to 
prevent a "dry" vote. 



"The beer traffic does not recognize the sane- 
tity of the home 1 " 



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Chapter XIX. 

BREWERS FEAR 
WOMAN SUFFRAGE 



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Women know that the abolition of the 
beer traffic will prevent their children from 
becoming drunkards and criminals. 

Women know that the abolition of the 
beer traffic means a full pay envelope on 
Saturday — a happier home — and more 
food and clothes for them and their chil- 
dren. 

Women know that in the states where 
the beer traffic has been ousted, w T age earn- 
ers who formerly spent the greater part of 
their earnings in saloons have, since the 
advent of the "dry" wave, invested their 
savings in a house and lot, and in a few 
years were able to pay off the entire indebt- 
edness — and now are masters of their own 
home. 

That's the reason why brewers greatly 
fear the votes of women and why they con- 
sider woman suffrage the stepping stone to 
prohibition. 



Chapteb XX. 

PEOPLE EESENT GOVEENMENT BY 
THE BREWEES 



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It is not the beer traffic alone, but the 
social and political crimes of the brewers, 
which is leading to rapid prohibitory laws 
all over the country. 

People resent government by the brew- 
ers. People resent the election of legisla- 
tors and other public officials, city, state 
and national, to serve ends hostile to social 
decency, to rule by the people, to the very 
life of the nation. 



The End. 



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